Maybe there is hope for me!
Friday, July 29, 2011
I'm a work in progress
Thursday, July 28, 2011
the best entertainment
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
A big cherry popsicle
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
take two
This one was fun. I made a coloring page out of one of Rachel's pictures! If you want to do know how to do that go here. This is also that site where I found the idea! Thank goodness for creative people, why didn't I think of this?
There are so many fun activities in these magazines. And for all ages! They have crossword puzzels, word find it thingys, and word unscrambler thingys. I put a couple of the hard ones in for me.... hey, sometimes I need an activity too, especially during some of those high priests talks... did I just say that?
Sunday, July 24, 2011
the hardest hour of the week
Sacrament meeting.
I'm going to go ahead and open myself up here. Let it all hang out. I am terribly self-conscious about sacrament meeting. I am constantly asking myself things like... "Is it okay to let her wave to the people in the pew behind us? How many waves is too many?", "Can she walk up and down the row?", "How many snacks are appropriate?", "How loud does Maggie have to cry to be distracting?"... and the list goes on. I see these cute ladies with their children all entertained and quiet and think to myself, what the heck? What am I doing wrong here? And their hair and clothes still look nice, while I look like I just finished a race!
One more thing... Rachel is two. I bring her out of the meeting at least once every Sunday. She knows that when I take her out to the foyer bad things happen, but that doesn't seem to deter her from throwing fits here and there. But we keep going back in until she get's the hint. You WILL stay in sacrament meeting! There are some Sunday's that I come home feeling like I just completely failed.
{sigh}
I have been thinking of ways to help make Sunday's more pleasant, while still keeping it gospel related. I saw someone with one of these and thought I'd make one too. Let me just say that it took me way longer that I had expected! I am not a scrapbooker. I always like the end result, but I don't necessarily enjoy the process. If I were to do this project again, I'd definitely use a 4x6 photo album instead of an 8x8. I found almost all my pictures from old Ensign magazines, and what I didn't find I found at the church bookstore and on the internet.
F- Faith
G- Gratitude
H- Holy Ghost
I- Independence
J- Joseph Smith
K- Knock (I put a picture of Christ knocking at the door)
L- Love
M- Mommy
N- Nature
O- Obey (I found a picture of people being happy... When I obey, I'm HAPPY all day!)
P- Prophet
Q- Quiet
R- Resurrection
S- Scriptures
T-Temple
U- Universe ( This one was tricky. I found a picture with the Christus and the universe behind him, and an awesome quote about how 'such order bears witness of a Supreme Creator')
V- Values ( I put all the YW values... I'll have to add YM values once I have boys, and I WILL have boys... I hope.)
W- Word of Wisdom
Z- Zion
I'm going to go ahead and open myself up here. Let it all hang out. I am terribly self-conscious about sacrament meeting. I am constantly asking myself things like... "Is it okay to let her wave to the people in the pew behind us? How many waves is too many?", "Can she walk up and down the row?", "How many snacks are appropriate?", "How loud does Maggie have to cry to be distracting?"... and the list goes on. I see these cute ladies with their children all entertained and quiet and think to myself, what the heck? What am I doing wrong here? And their hair and clothes still look nice, while I look like I just finished a race!
One more thing... Rachel is two. I bring her out of the meeting at least once every Sunday. She knows that when I take her out to the foyer bad things happen, but that doesn't seem to deter her from throwing fits here and there. But we keep going back in until she get's the hint. You WILL stay in sacrament meeting! There are some Sunday's that I come home feeling like I just completely failed.
{sigh}
I have been thinking of ways to help make Sunday's more pleasant, while still keeping it gospel related. I saw someone with one of these and thought I'd make one too. Let me just say that it took me way longer that I had expected! I am not a scrapbooker. I always like the end result, but I don't necessarily enjoy the process. If I were to do this project again, I'd definitely use a 4x6 photo album instead of an 8x8. I found almost all my pictures from old Ensign magazines, and what I didn't find I found at the church bookstore and on the internet.
It's a Sunday ABC book. I started and soon realized that there's 26 letters in the alphabet! I have a feeling this realization is going to hit me about 26 miles as well. One page at a time, one mile at a time...
F- Faith
G- Gratitude
H- Holy Ghost
I- Independence
J- Joseph Smith
K- Knock (I put a picture of Christ knocking at the door)
L- Love
M- Mommy
N- Nature
O- Obey (I found a picture of people being happy... When I obey, I'm HAPPY all day!)
P- Prophet
Q- Quiet
R- Resurrection
S- Scriptures
T-Temple
U- Universe ( This one was tricky. I found a picture with the Christus and the universe behind him, and an awesome quote about how 'such order bears witness of a Supreme Creator')
V- Values ( I put all the YW values... I'll have to add YM values once I have boys, and I WILL have boys... I hope.)
W- Word of Wisdom
Z- Zion
And there you have it. Sorry for the suspense, I know it's not THAT amazing, but I'm so glad that it's finished! And I'm happy to report that it DID help today.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
what we've been doing...
Do ya'll ever get completely immersed in a project? I have this problem. I get so into something that I don't do anything else until it's finished. Ughhh, and it's taking me so much longer than I expected! More on that later, but for now I'm going to come up for air and do a blog post.
I decided to come to Houston for a couple weeks while Tyler is in training and for my birthday (which is tomorrow by the way!!). We've been doing all the usual Houston things....
I think she liked it better cooked, but it's a toss-up!
We met Pop downtown for lunch at my favorite- Treebeards! (excellent gumbo) We're working on the concept of sharing, but it just doesn't settle when there's cake involved. If anyone else tryed to take a bite, she'd yell, "That's enough!" haha! I've been hearing myself in her voice a whole lot lately. She went a entire week saying, "Hear me?" after every sentence.
We took our teething frustrations out on the bread... better than my chin at least...
We helped Nana make her weekly batch of protein muffins...
We played with Nana-Nana...
We hung out in our diaper... (well Maggie did anyway)
We ate lots and lots of cucumbers and bell peppers... What is this face about? No idea, but it makes me laugh.
And realized swinging is too much work, so we hung instead...
We visited with Grandma and Grandpa Barrow...
And bribed for pictures... noticed to bag of M&Ms in Rachel's hand... You don't really have even look for the candy, just look at Rachel's smile...
And that's what we've been doing.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Parker County Peach Festival
Ever since they hung up the "Parker County Peach Festival" signs around town I've been dying to go. I am such a sucker for small town charm. I love it! I'm pretty sure I've already mentioned this, but have I told you that I love living out in the country? It's so good for Rachel. There's always something fun for her to do. Bored? Go check the chicken coop for eggs, pet the horse, catch grasshoppers, pick wildflowers, and the list goes on. Anyway, although it was blazing hot outside, I packed up the girls and went to the Peach Festival. I'm not going to lie, it wasn't as cool as I thought it'd be, and it definitely didn't compare to a Hill Country peach or a Georgia peach, but they were still yummy. And it was something to do get out the house. I hate sitting around and doing the normal routine the day Tyler leaves. So, it was a nice distraction.
Tearing up that peach!
hmmm, that's an interesting flavor...
My girls eating peaches... I love Rachel's face...
What a lovely picture of me... not! But hey, I was there too!
Maggie sure loved them peaches. They were sweet, but not as sweet as her!
Independence Day Celebration!
The fourth of July is one of my favorites! Let's see, first it's Easter and then second is the 4th of July. Mostly because it's all about summertime activities... popsicles, swimming, and BBQ! And of course, it's about "the land of the free and the home of the brave". I love you America!
Eating ice cream at Braums (the best ice cream place EVER!) This girl cracks me up! All hail the Ice Cream Queen...
Ha-HA Nana got slimed! This is my favorite way to get slimed...
Donuts 4th of July morning...
Tyler was asked to participate in our wards flag-raising ceremony...Maggie kept playing with his beret, hence it not being on perfectly straight... just thought I'd explain since it really bugged him. But I was so giddy to finally get a decent picture with him and the girls in his uniform that I didn't care... obviously...
Nothing like a tee-shirt with an American flag and a large mouth bass jumping out of it to say, "I love the U.SA!"
Ha-HA Nana got slimed! This is my favorite way to get slimed...
Donuts 4th of July morning...
Tyler was asked to participate in our wards flag-raising ceremony...Maggie kept playing with his beret, hence it not being on perfectly straight... just thought I'd explain since it really bugged him. But I was so giddy to finally get a decent picture with him and the girls in his uniform that I didn't care... obviously...
Nothing like a tee-shirt with an American flag and a large mouth bass jumping out of it to say, "I love the U.SA!"
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